Experimental and molecular simulation results are presented for the adsorption of water onto activated
carbons. The pore size distribution for the carbon studied was determined from nitrogen adsorption data
using density functional theory, and the density of acidic and basic surface sites was found using Boehm
and potentiometric titration. The total surface site density was 0.675 site/nm2. Water adsorption was
measured for relative pressures P/P
0 down to 10-3. A new molecular model for the water/activated carbon
system is presented, which we term the effective single group model, and grand canonical Monte Carlo
simulations are reported for the range of pressures covered in the experiments. A comparison of these
simulations with the experiments show generally good agreement, although some discrepancies are noted
at very low pressures and also at high relative pressures. The differences at low pressure are attributed
to the simplification of using a single surface group species, while those at high pressure are believed to
arise from uncertainties in the pore size distribution. The simulation results throw new light on the
adsorption mechanism for water at low pressures. The influence of varying both the density of surface sites
and the size of the graphite microcrystals is studied using molecular simulation.
Polychloromethylsilanes were reacted with ammonia at various temperatures and pressures to achieve shape stabilization of preceramic green fibers. Besides the aspired cross-linking process, other reactions took place due to the interaction with NH4Cl, deposited as
a byproduct at the polymer surface. FT/IR, 13C, 29Si, and 15N solid-state NMR investigations
and X-ray powder diffraction were applied to follow the dynamics of the reaction and to
characterize the obtained products. They prove that during annealing under argon back
reactions occur. With annealing under ammonia, pressures up to 4 bar and temperatures
>200 °C completely rearrange the polysilane into a polysilazane skeleton. The resulting
silazane exhibits a cagelike structure. Reactions causing this rearrangement are discussed.
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